Tom Aiello

@tii_bag Welcome to the socialist worldview.

I shared my wifi password with my neighbour since she said she was struggling on bills and couldn't keep up with paying for her subscription but under one condition, "DON'T SHARE IT WITH ANYONE ELSE" So today my internet was lagging super bad so I decided to check the devices: apart from my two devices,there were other 10 devices connected. Tv's, a whole gaming system and 7 phones. So I asked her if she shared my password and she replied, " I did share with 3 other neighbours and I also have many devices but you have unlimited so I don't think thats a problem" I said no problem for sure,went back to my house and changed my password. That audacity for something you don't pay for suprises me

@LamarMK Not having to go to the gas station is a vastly underrated perk of owning a Tesla.

I haven't been to a gas station in almost 3 years. I don't miss it one bit. No standing outside in the cold. No waiting in line. No watching $80 disappear in 5 minutes. I plug my Tesla in at home every night and wake up to a full charge. It takes less effort than charging your phone. People think switching to an EV is complicated. It's the opposite. It simplified my life. When's the last time you enjoyed a trip to the gas station?

@Businessnes1 @Defence_Index I'm thinking more this Ursula: disney.fandom.com/wiki/Ursula

@Defence_Index Ursula?

🇺🇦 BREAKING: Ukraine unveils “Ursula”, a stealthy unmanned river system built for covert warfare. Developed by Noviteh, it can secretly deploy anti-submarine and anti-pontoon mines, lay water obstacles like nets, and tow up to 500 kg of cargo. Silent. Hidden. Built for river dominance.

@phil_mcalister It would be easier for them to put 1% of their wealth into a 'get rid of Warren' Super PAC.

If I were one of these billionaires she's always blasting, I'd call up my fellow billionaires and pitch them an idea: Let's all put 3% of our wealth into a fund, and use the money to start businesses and non profits thst solve highly impactful problems for the country. Show the difference in outcomes when private, motivated people with a stake in the success do something vs. when the government confiscates and squanders resources

@newstart_2024 These are the same people who, 50 years ago, cancelled Alan Turing because he was gay. Different criteria, same people pushing their mob mentality.

The guy just landed a spacecraft on a comet — one of the most impressive scientific achievements in years. His reward? A public struggle session because his bowling shirt had scantily clad women on it. Helen Andrews points out the quiet cost of institutional feminization: HR departments now hunt down any maverick personality and stamp it out. We’re losing innovators we’ll never even know about, all because someone focused on the shirt instead of the comet. This is how wokeness actually works. Have you seen real excellence get punished for something trivial like this?

@ShamashAran I honestly think that Europe would win that conflict.

@marcorandazza As an Italian, I would rather Italy and the USA remain allied.

We should fucking leave. And then invite the useful components of NATO to join a new alliance.

@avidseries Someone is almost certain to say that this is because of a vast zionist conspiracy to monopolize Nobel prizes and deny them to Muslims.

Percentage of world population that is Muslim: 24% Percentage that is Jewish: 0.2% Number of Nobel Prizes in science, medicine, and economics awarded to Muslims: 4 To Jews: 194*

@InfiniteGuesses @gueyespera @TheKevinDalton El Toro closed in 1999, actually.

@gueyespera @SnakeRiverBASE @TheKevinDalton Hasn’t been here since the 60s lol

I’m not sure who needs to hear this, but Rancho Cucamonga is not Los Angeles.

@mattvanswol This is the central reason that X tends to lean right. Compare with BlueSky, where active censorship of conservatives makes it a 'safe space' of left-only discourse. Leftists aren't comfortable engaging with opposing views. Rightists not only are, but tend to relish it.

I have actively tried to get my liberal friends on X. They will not do it. They read one thing they find offensive and leave X instead of challenging the argument to a public debate. The Left is absolutely certain they are right. While having zero interest in proving it...

@UziCryptoo Totally agree. Business should be taxed only on profit, and individuals should receive a standard deduction that is large enough to cover living expenses.

HOT TAKE: IF BUSINESSES ONLY HAVE TO PAY TAXES ON PROFIT, NOT REVENUE, THEN I SHOULD ONLY HAVE TO PAY TAXES AFTER I'VE PAID ALL MY BILLS AND RENT.

@ajlamesa Rome to Naples is fast enough that I have woken up in Rome, had breakfast in Naples, spent the day in Pompeii, and had dinner back in Rome. If the US was able to build that, it would be amazing. But I very much doubt it could be done in California.

The California high-speed rail journey should have started with a line between Los Angeles and San Diego -- downtown to downtown. It's about the same distance as Rome to Naples, which is connected by a 300 km/h (186 mph) line. Yes, they'd have had to do some challenging tunnel construction, but it would have been good and necessary practice for the line to San Francisco.

@mitchellvii Vance as Tweeter in Chief with DeSantis actually running things and Rubio in charge of foreign policy would actually work very well. Ron DeSantis is the most effective public executive in the USA, and it's not even close.

One reason for a potential 𝗝.𝗗. 𝗩𝗔𝗡𝗖𝗘 - 𝗥𝗢𝗡 𝗗𝗘𝗦𝗔𝗡𝗧𝗜𝗦 ticket in 2028 is that Marco Rubio might want to remain as Secretary of State because it's really a better job than being Vice President.

@SandyofCthulhu The major failure of the Japanese naval leadership was that their very best admiral was assassinated by the USA. That one action helped the allies immensely in the pacific, even though that admiral's best advice was routinely ignored by his government. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isoroku_Y…

The problem for navies, of course, is that if you beach your ship or get it damaged in peacetime, your naval career is over. Dead in the water. But in wartime you want captains and admirals who will lean into danger & put ships at risk. America was lucky in WW2 to have Admirals King, Nimitz, Spruance, Leahy, and Halsey, who understood this, and steadfastly removed & replaces men with the “peacetime” attitude. One reason we bested Japan was that throughout the war they clung to some “peacetime” admirals who were overcautious. I know it sounds crazy to say the Imperial Japanese Fleet could be cautious, and of course it was recklessly courageous at times, but look at the decisions of Kurita or Nagumo. Or on the failure of Japan to use their greater numbers and superior skill to destroy our navy in the Guadalcanal campaign, instead dithering and wasting their efforts in night supply runs while we kept getting stronger. I’m glad they did, of course, but their troops and lower-level captains deserved better.

@avidseries It might be more accurate to group the EU together in this chart, though. If you broke the USA out into states, it would also not be in the top 20.

Of the 22 most populous nations in 2100, only three or four are currently relatively high-functioning.

@KavehMadani Universities are centers of technological research, which can be developed for weapons. If the Iranian government bombed MIT or Caltech, those would be legitimate military targets.

Universities are centers of learning and hope, not battlefields. Targeting them, whatever the justification, erodes norms that protect civilians, knowledge, and future generations. We must not allow this to become normal.

@JohnWight1 Which side is the civilization that invented the atomic bomb on? What about the civilization that landed a human on the moon?

The civilisation that invented algebra is currently doing battle with the one that invented the hamburger. This is all you need to know.

@ryangrim During WW2, men in engineering fields at technical universities were exempted from the draft because they were a 'talent pipeline' for military development.

Callings schools and universities “talent pipelines” for the military is genocidal language

@gueyespera @TheKevinDalton I guess that depends on if the train gets federal funding (from those other people who don't matter?) or not.

@SnakeRiverBASE @TheKevinDalton Everyone outside of California (except the people in Las Vegas obviously) don’t really matter in this case? lol were going to be the ones using this train and these aren’t just little details so idk why what you said has any relevance here